153731P.pdf   01/03/2017  United States  v.  Rahmad Geddes
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3731
                          and No:  16-3898
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Murphy and Gruender, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court did not abuse its 
   discretion by denying defendant's motion to sever a firearms count from 
   the sex trafficking counts in the case, as the conduct took place over a 
   short period of time on trip the defendant took with the victim and she 
   would have been able to testify about the gun-related facts in a trial of 
   the sex trafficking counts; in any event, there was little probability of 
   prejudice given the relatively straightforward facts in the case; no error 
   in permitting defendant's former girlfriend to testify about an incident 
   in 2010 where defendant threatened her, as the jury was properly 
   instructed on use of the testimony and the evidence's probative value 
   outweighed any possible unfair prejudice; no error in permitting testimony 
   from an expert in human trafficking; evidence was sufficient to support 
   defendant's convictions on the sex trafficking counts.